Road Trip...

I am very tired... have just done a 1100 klm road trip...now I know why they invented planes...much better to fly... I never want to drive anywhere again...my second eldest, who is pregnant and has been living down south decided to move back up north to have her baby... so I flew down to help her pack up and drive home with her in her car...I should be having a nap at the moment but the puppy was crying so i am out the back yard with her... she found an empty coke zero bottle and is playing with it at my feet... the idea of coming outside with her was so she could run around and she sits at my feet...go figure!! so we left my daughters rented flat clean and because she still has 2 weeks left on the lease she is paying rent of course while she has already moved and the rental agency sends an email to remind her that she is responsible for the condition of the flat until the lease date... I hope not too much of the dust storm gets inside the flat... I hope but am not hopeful... it is an older style building that has cracks and wooden windows so I am sure she will get a call to say that her bond will have to cover the cleaning of the flat...now that really sucks... it is not as if she is just moved to the other side of town and could go back to rectify any problems... I just hope she doesn't have to pay too much out of bond to cover the expense... I am not hopeful about that one either...

We had a good trip home... Her car is a manual transmission and i usually drive an automatic so there were some moments when I forgot and tried to navigate a corner in 4th gear... and several times when I started the car in gear! Much laughter and instructions from the passenger seat and I did finally get the hang of it and was able to start the engine and change gears appropriately for most of the trip...

so here I am sitting in the back yard and all I can see is dust!!! It is awful, not as thick as it was in Sydney and not as red but not nice just the same...
Because I am outside i don't have my external hard drive atached to the laptop and so I don't have any layouts to post on the laptop so have added some photos from my garden... the first one is of a vine that grows along the fence and i have no idea what it is called but is very pretty with the bright red colour and the black in the centre... the nest one is a gardenia flower and then the begonia flowers...well actually it is the other way around... enjoy!